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Change svn username during commit

We have corporate logins like QWE098765 and how to use them to access the SVN repository. I want to display these names in emails so they will be available to people in SVN history.

I am currently using a post-commit hook that changes the svn: author revision property, but ... But here is a small gap between the commit and the change name, and sometimes SVN change tracking applications (CommitMonitor, Jenkins) catch the name QWE098765 instead of electronic letters. It's not a big problem, but annoying.

Maybe there is another way to display names here?

PS We are using VisualSVN server to access the repository.

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Finally I got it from Lazy Badger

Indeed, this is not possible with standard tools: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2014-09/0032.shtml



But you can write a simple script or program and work directly with the Subversion API. I'm writing a simple implementation of a program like this: https://github.com/azarkevich/SvnPreCommitAuthor

The file path is required with the mapping name -> new name and must be run as a pre-commit hook.

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Just do it with a pre-commit hook (I know and follow "Don't change the content of a transaction in pre-commit", but the log, author and date properties are another story and can be freely changed)



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Use a python script to change author in a pre-commit hook:

This is a good example: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/hook-scripts/log-police.py This changes the log, but changing the author works the same (just replace svn: log with svn : author).

You will need python-subversion. If you are on Ubuntu / Debian install it using:

sudo apt install python-subversion
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